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Temporarily being able to clear out areas would be great. I think that it would also be good if you could do this for urban areas, such as villages and towns; clear out a section of town, and have a duration of quiet before zombies either begin spilling in from neighbouring parts of town or spawn on the outskirts and start roaming back inwards. This would open the doors to being able to lock down an area and hold off zombie intrusion as they try to make their way back in. I'm kind of opposed to having zombies respawn within the cleared out area. To compensate, the zombies respawning outside of the cleared area could become more numerous depending on what zone they're in. A town, for example, would result in a larger hoarde of zombies wandering towards it than a small farmhouse, but ultimately the number of zombies attempting to siege the zone would be larger than the amount you initially cleared from it. This would prevent clearing an area from being the redundant experience of shooting the same few zombies over and over.

Because it's a forum for suggestions, and clearly a significant enough portion of the community wants to discuss the removal of third person view. As someone mentioned, you can change your options to improve performance in first person. Quite simple and effective. And yes, third person does give an advantage in a firefight. You can see over obstacles and have ridiculously unrealistic visual awareness of your surroundings. Many people play in third person only because they have this advantage and it makes them more difficult to sneak up on, while giving them an advantageous means to locate potential targets. This whole notion of "the game is perfect" and "shouldn't change" just reeks of childish sentiment from people who've adapted to the game as it is, and can't bear to have to adapt to anything different, no matter how detrimental to gameplay it is to leave it unchanged. This attitude leads to stagnation; when a vocal portion of people spend time burying helpful or otherwise criticism and insisting upon the status quo, the game goes nowhere but downhill. Heaven forbid any sort of changes be made to a game that is ridden with bugs and glitches, but has all the potential in the world. Also, why should people who play in the first person have any concern if removal of the third person mode prevents you from playing the game as you want? Especially if the issues you have in the first person are easily remedied by tweaking your options?